The Irish Americans

  • The Irish Americans
    The Irish Americans
    By Karen Price Hossell

    In San Francisco , for example , Irish immigrant Peter Donahue thought the city needed a gas lighting system , so he erected streetlights in the city . He built a mansion in downtown San Francisco and left an estate of $ 4 million when ...

  • The Irish Americans
    The Irish Americans
    By Jim F. Watts, James F. Watts

    The greatest Irish - American writer , F. Scott Fitzgerald ( 1896–1940 ) , combined a talent for realism with a profound moral vision . Born in St. Paul , Minnesota , and later educated at Princeton ( though he never earned his degree ) ...

  • The Irish Americans: A History
    The Irish Americans: A History
    By Jay P. Dolan

    See Robert V. Bruce, 1877: Year of Violence (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1989); Milton Meltzer, Bread and Roses: The Struggle ... Gary B. Nash et al., TheAmerican People(New York: Harper and Row, 1990), p. 633.

  • The Irish Americans
    The Irish Americans
    By Brenda Haugen

    Titles in this series: African Americans Italian Americans Irish Americans Jewish Americans [flap copy] For the world's oppressed, poor, or simply opportunistic, America has always offered hope, luck, and the chance for a new start.

  • The Irish Americans
    The Irish Americans
    By William D. Griffin

    Presents the powerful story of the forty million Irish Americans, descendants of the seven million who emigrated from Ireland to America over the last three centuries, in a richly textured portrait complete with paintings and vintage ...

  • The Irish Americans: The Rise to Money and Power
    The Irish Americans: The Rise to Money and Power
    By Andrew M. Greeley

    The Irish Americans: The Rise to Money and Power

  • The Irish Americans: A History
    The Irish Americans: A History
    By Jay P. Dolan

    Rich in colorful detail, balanced in judgment, and the most comprehensive work of its kind yet published, THE AMERICAN IRISH is a lasting achievement by a master historian that will become a must-have volume for any American with an ...

  • The Irish Americans
    The Irish Americans
    By Brenda Haugen, Barry Moreno

    Titles in this series: African Americans Italian Americans Irish Americans Jewish Americans [flap copy] For the world's oppressed, poor, or simply opportunistic, America has always offered hope, luck, and the chance for a new start.

  • The Irish Americans: Emigration to the New World
    By John Watney

    The Irish Americans offers an introduction to the world of their ancestors and, perhaps, their own roots. -- inside front cover.

  • The Irish Americans
    The Irish Americans
    By Jim F. Watts

    Discusses the history, culture, and religion of the Irish, factors encouraging their emigration, and their acceptance as an ethnic group in North America.

  • The Irish Americans
    The Irish Americans
    By William D. Griffin

    Tells the story of those seven million Irish men, women and children who left their native land and sailed to America, hoping for a chance at a better life. Many...

  • The Irish Americans: The Rise to Money and Power
    By Andrew M. Greeley

    A myth-debunking examination of the Irish in America chronicles the history of the American Irish from their Celtic origins to their current status, noting the remarkable record of success the...

  • The Irish Americans
    The Irish Americans
    By Ernest Wood

    Records the success stories of a people driven from their country by politics, economics, and hunger, including the Irish signers of the Declaration of Independence, Civil war regiments that carried the green flag, and other noteworthy ...

  • The Irish Americans

    The Irish Americans